its a small world after all

Saturday I was out talking to fans at Adrian College trying to get quotes for a reaction piece about the new Performance Enhancement Stadium on the colleges campus. It was the first football game in the stadium that night and there was a big crowd. While interviewing a man from Toledo, I noticed this guy by me had stopped and was kinda listening in so I approached him after I got done and before I started to ask him questions, he was like hey your Brian, right.

Yes I replied and right then and there I realized that it was my high school history/economics teacher Mark Morris. Very stunned to see him there, he then told me he was at the game because he is an Adrian College alum and former football player. Apparently he was the team captain his senior season and a running back who earned MVP honors. I was pretty impressed to find that out and still couldnt believe that I ran into someone from Coloma out in Adrian.

By the way, the stadium was very nice as was the press box. Very similar to one Ive been into at Western Michigan's Waldo Stadium.

As for the game, Adrian lost 10-0 to Defiance. There actually were two soccer games at the field prior to the football game and Adrian lost both of those as well. So in essence they opened their new field with an 0-3 record - kinda sucky. If it was me, I'd be scheduling some teams I know I would definitely beat to open a new stadium in - but oh well.

Prior to working Saturday I got to see a good portion of the EMU-Michigan State game, and flipped between the Game 5 of the WNBA finals in the second half to only see the Shock clinch the title.
But anyways as far as the football game was concerned, I was glad to see Eastern put up a fight and I actually had hope for them the way they started the second half. Its too bad they couldnt tie the game at 24 after recovering a fumble on the second half kickoff. Oh well, but I think they have a decent shot at beating Northwestern on Saturday.

strike

So its the third day of classes at EMU and there is faculty that is still striking. Man i'm jealous. How come this didn't happen my senior year when the faculty was very close to striking before an agreement was reached the night before classes

Link to story from the student newspaper: http://easternecho.com/cgi-bin/story.cgi?11411

but i'm 17

as i was gettin ready to go to hudson to cover a game i decided to go get some gas at the BP by my house and then run back to my apartment for a little bit before i leave. well my trip to the gas station started out normal - i was filling up my car and whatever until a car pulled up next to me and asked me for a favor. me thinking they were going to ask for directions or something approached the car and was like yeah whats up. then the girl asks if i will buy her some cigarettes, to which I reply im only 17. her and her friend look at me and im like for real im 17 - she immediately is like bull fucking shit - and im like i am - and shes like bull fucking shit and speeds off.

like i would seriously buy her some damn cigarettes with the attendant from inside looking out the window. and besides i dont even smoke

streak

I keep on ending up at Tigers games that end up having a streaker run across the field. Last August I went to a game against the Red Sox where a couple of naked guys jumped on to the field from the first base line and one of them made it all the way across to the third base side before gettin caught.

Saturday in the game against the Angels a guy jumped out from the third base line and ran across the field. As he was running he fell on the center field grass quite a bit in front of Tigers centerfielder Curtis Granderson. He then was eventually caught in the rightfield corner.

The game was pretty tight. Sarah and I got to see Verlander pitch and had some decent seats that were 20 rows behind the Tigers dugout. After trailing 1-0, Detroit scored two runs in the eighth thanks to a clutch hit by Marcus Thames to go up 2-1. It appeared it would be another W but shaky defense in the ninth helped Los Angeles tie the game. They eventually scored 5 runs in the 10th with a triple by Chone Figgins keying the surge. They won the game 7-2 which was a crappy ending. Hopefully this loss won't come back to hurt them late in the month when the Tigs try to claim the Central Division title and reach the playoffs
Regardless it was still fun, and I was glad to finally see Verlander pitch in person.
It looked like the game might get cancelled because of rain but the game just started 15 minutes later.

the photos above are from the Associated Press